ABSTRACT
It Would All Be Illegal, Today I joined the Department of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego in 1966, the year after the three founding fathers-George Mandler, Norman Anderson, and Bill McGill-had set things up. Recruiting in those days was dramatically different from the way it is today. In 1965, at a meeting of the Psychological Round Table, the east coast secret society of psychologists who had proclaimed themselves "the young Thrks," I told David Green that the University of California campus at Irvine was being established and that they were asking if I were interested in joining them. Dave said "don't go to Irvine, go to La Jolla." I responded that I hadn't been asked. A few days later I was asked.
